Testimony of Healing July 22, 1933 Issue

I have many reasons to be grateful for Christian Science...

Paul R. Carmack

I have many reasons to be grateful for Christian Science. It is teaching me how to appreciate the Bible and to make daily use of it. It is proving to be not only a key to the Scriptures, but a key to a happy and useful life for me as well. It is enabling me to understand God as ever present Love, the God who meets all human needs, and whose "hand is not shortened, that it cannot save." Christian Science is awakening me to my great heritage as a child of God. It is enabling me to understand what it means to be made in the image and likeness of God, and in a small measure to demonstrate that understanding in my daily life. It is teaching me the value of thinking intelligently, alertly, unselfishly, lovingly, gratefully; and to the extent that I do so, I am wonderfully blessed. To know that God is my Life, my intelligence, fortifies me for my daily work as nothing else can.

Through the study and application of Christian Science, while at a naval training station during the world war, I was instantaneously healed of scarlet fever when a large part of the camp was under quarantine due to a so-called epidemic of that disease. A few years later I experienced a severe attack of appendicitis. The pain was so intense that it was necessary to have the help of a Christian Science practitioner. Considerable relief was obtained at once; then for about a week there seemed to be little progress. At the end of that time, however, there suddenly came to my consciousness a clear realization of the allness of God and the nothingness of everything unlike Him, and within a few minutes every evidence of the disease and pain completely disappeared. The same healing truth has often been applied to business problems, and quick and harmonious adjustments have always resutled when the right mental work has been obediently and persistently done.

I shall never cease to be grateful to Christian Science for enabling me to resist the temptation to run away from one kind of work to look for another. After being discharged from the navy at the close of the world war I, like many others, was anxious to find my rightful place in a lien of work for with I had previously been trained. But my services seemed to be needed elsewhere and I tried to do the work willingly and lovingly. It was completed in a little more than four months, and I then proceeded to look for work along the line for which I had been trained. In a large western city and in a most unexpected way I found a place in an office that had been opened only two days before I arrived. In a short while the work there led me to a much better position with a larger organization. This position proved to be but a step to a still better one which provides me with unlimited opportunities for growth and advancement.

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